they make up almost 22% of the state's population. it is a unique population, given the large cuban community there, which is much denser than the rest of the country and tends to vote republican. who has a better handle on this voting bloc, if that can even be classified as a single bloc? >> well, you really can't. but nevertheless, hispanic voters generally share the same second language, and in some cases, certainly in miami, certainly the same first language, spanish. but registered voters showed bop with a whopping lead of 30 points. he needs to keep that lead high. in 2008, obama won 57-42 over mccain with the hispanic vote here. one of the reasons that it was higher in the rest of the nation is that we have about a third of our hispanic voters are cuban america. they tend to overwhelmingly vote republican. what you're seeing since 2008 and since 2006 and before is there's a burgeoning puerto rican community in central florida that's largely democratic that's balancing out the cuban republican vote. so that's really where obama'